Chapter Summaries

Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing stayed in Celestic Town, where they planned to wait for the full moon so Misdreavus could evolve and discussed earning money through Pokémon battles. While following a speeding aircraft, they witnessed it shoot down a Latios, leaving Hai Ming to wonder whether he had interfered with Ash’s path to a championship.

• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing ate at Celestic Town’s noodle shop and agreed to stay two more days for Misdreavus’s evolution under the full moon.
• Hai Ming suggested earning money through wagered Pokémon battles because they had little cash.
• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing spotted an aircraft chasing a flying target and followed it through the sky.
• The aircraft fired a specialized red bullet that pierced the target, which Hai Ming recognized as Latios.
• Hai Ming wondered whether Latios’s death had removed an obstacle for Ash, while Zhu Zhuqing doubted that Ash could win a championship.

Tobias tried to capture Latios and Latias after drugging Raya and wounding Latios, but Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing intervened. Hai Ming healed Latios and subdued Tobias, leaving him unconscious along with his Pokémon.

• Tobias cornered the wounded Latios and unconscious Raya, and demanded that Latios become his Pokémon in exchange for Raya’s safety.
• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing arrived, and Hai Ming blasted Tobias with an Aura Sphere while Hai Ming asked Zhu Zhuqing to handle Latios’s injuries.
• Hai Ming’s Darkrai stopped Tobias’s Darkrai and Garchomp from attacking, then knocked Garchomp away.
• Hai Ming recognized Tobias as the descendant of a Sinnoh League executive and saw that Latios had fully recovered.
• Hai Ming used Shadow Black Hole to strike Tobias, his Darkrai, and his Garchomp, stopping Tobias from escaping.

After Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing brought Tobias to Professor Carolina, she arranged for the Pokémon League to prosecute him for persecuting Latios and Latias. Carolina kept Tobias's Darkrai at her research institute and prepared a mysterious stone tablet as a gift for Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing.

• Professor Carolina agreed to report Tobias to the Pokémon League after Hai Ming explained that Tobias had been persecuting Latios and Latias.
• A-Quan contacted Hu Liena and the League's higher-ups, who sent representatives to Celestic Town.
• Officer Jenny restrained Tobias and took him to the Sinnoh League to stand trial.
• Professor Carolina kept Tobias's Darkrai at her research institute after the League representatives argued over its fate.
• Professor Carolina decided to consult Hai Ming's Darkrai about Tobias's Darkrai and selected a blank stone tablet as a gift for Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing.

Professor Carolina discovered that Tobias's Darkrai was losing strength because its Life Source had been stolen and its Soul Power was being drained by Mismagius's Soul Core. Cynthia recovered the core from Giratina, restoring Darkrai to Champion level, while Hai Ming began considering becoming a Legendary Pokémon trainer.

• Professor Carolina told Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing that Darkrai's strength had rapidly declined overnight, and Hai Ming agreed to examine it.
• Hai Ming summoned his Darkrai, which identified Tobias's Darkrai's missing Life Source and stabilized it while explaining how Darkrai's Life Source worked.
• Darkrai detected Mismagius's Soul Core inside its kin and used residual energy to identify Giratina as the one holding the missing core.
• Professor Carolina contacted Cynthia, who found that Giratina had taken Darkrai's core after punishing it for damaging the Distortion World.
• Giratina returned the core and restored Darkrai's depleted soul, bringing it back to Champion level, and Hai Ming considered gathering more Legendary Pokémon.

Hai Ming asked Latios and Latias to join him for the Lily of the Valley Conference and revealed that Darkrai would collect badges in his place. The chapter ended with Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing setting off for Sunyshore City, where he hoped to find Shaymin.

• Hai Ming asked Latios and Latias to become his Pokémon temporarily so he could enter the Lily of the Valley Conference, and Latios agreed on the condition that they could leave afterward.
• Hai Ming told Professor Carolina that Darkrai would collect the eight badges while he and Zhu Zhuqing continued their honeymoon trip.
• Professor Carolina reacted with disbelief and decided to warn her friends so their descendants would be prepared for Hai Ming's Gym challenge.
• Zhu Zhuqing said they planned to visit Sunyshore City to enjoy its scenery and the coming Gracidea bloom.
• Hai Ming decided that Shaymin would be his fifth Pokémon.

Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing waited in Sunyshore City for Shaymin to appear in the Gracidea Flower Garden, but the Pokémon stayed hidden. They later met Ash and his companions in the wilderness, where Ash mentioned that Darkrai had been challenging Gyms.

• Hai Ming refused Kyogre's request to come out and fight Groudon, then learned that the Gracidea Flower Garden was about to bloom.
• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing watched the flower garden and waited for Shaymin, but no herd appeared despite several Shaymin being nearby.
• After another half month, Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing encountered Ash, Dawn, and Xiao Gang picnicking in the wilderness.
• Dawn said Ash was training on the way to earn another Badge, and Ash asked Hai Ming what Darkrai was busy doing.
• Ash revealed that Darkrai had been challenging Gyms, prompting his companions to wonder whether Hai Ming would enter the tournament.

Ash eagerly prepared to battle Hai Ming, while the group discovered and rescued a lost Shaymin. Shaymin explained that it had escaped the Distortion World after a strange aircraft pulled it into a vortex, leaving Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing wondering what the aircraft was.

• Ash challenged Hai Ming with excitement, and Pikachu struck Ash with a Thunderbolt that left him unharmed.
• Zhu Zhuqing caught a dirty Shaymin stealing food, and Dawn washed it clean.
• Hai Ming examined Shaymin and learned it was unusually powerful for its Land Forme.
• Zhu Zhuqing said they had come to return Shaymin to its kin in the Gracidea Flower Garden, and Shaymin eagerly agreed to go home.
• Shaymin recounted falling into a river, being pulled into a vortex by a gigantic aircraft, and escaping the Distortion World after using Seed Flare.
• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing identified the strange world as the Distortion World and suspected Giratina, but wondered what the aircraft was.

Ash, Dawn, Xiao Gang, Hai Ming, and Zhu Zhuqing met Giratina after it escaped an intruder in the Distortion World, and Giratina brought them there as thanks. In the Distortion World, Zhu Zhuqing absorbed Nether power and evolved her Martial Soul into the Nether Lord.

• Shaymin led the group to the lake, where they found Palkia instead of Giratina.
• Palkia explained that an intruder had sealed Giratina in the Distortion World, then said it had banished the intruder to another dimension.
• Giratina emerged from the lake, thanked the group for coming to help, and invited them to see the Distortion World.
• Giratina brought Hai Ming, Zhu Zhuqing, Ash, Dawn, and Xiao Gang into the Distortion World, where Zhu Zhuqing was surrounded by a red cocoon.
• Giratina confirmed Zhu Zhuqing possessed Nether power and sent dark mist into her cocoon, triggering her Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul to evolve into the Nether Lord.

Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing reunited with Ash's group in Michina Town as Arceus's awakening drew near. When Giratina and Dialga began fighting again, Zhu Zhuqing sensed that Giratina's mind had been clouded, and Hai Ming realized the crisis had arrived.

• Zhu Zhuqing told Hai Ming that she had mostly adapted to her mutated Nether Lord Martial Soul and its power over the Distortion World.
• Hai Ming predicted that the final major event he had awaited would occur in less than a month, while Zhu Zhuqing wondered whether they would leave Sinnoh afterward.
• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing met Ash and his group, and Hai Ming pointed out the many legendary blessings attached to Ash.
• Hai Ming noted that Ash had six Gym badges while Darkrai had apparently already earned seven, then stayed behind with Zhu Zhuqing as Ash's group visited nearby ruins.
• Hai Ming watched spacetime ripples rise as Giratina and Dialga fought, and Zhu Zhuqing sensed that Giratina's mind had been clouded by something.
• Hai Ming concluded that Arceus's approaching awakening and its wave of resentment had caused the crisis.

After learning that Arceus planned to judge humanity, Ash and his friends arrived at Michina Temple as Arceus attacked the town. Hai Ming blocked its attacks, but Arceus mistook a fake Jewel of Life for another human deception, leaving Hai Ming to defend Sheena and insist that Michina Town deserved an explanation.

• Sheena told Ash and the others that Arceus harbored hatred for humanity and intended to pass judgment, prompting Ash to vow to protect Michina Town.
• Arceus launched a rain of meteors at the town, and Hai Ming appeared in darkened armor to destroy them with Dragon Judgment Pebbles.
• Hai Ming used Twilight of the Sea God and repeated Tenfold Ring Detonation to match Arceus's power, while Arceus healed him and offered him a chance to become its God-Communicator.
• Sheena presented Arceus with a fake Jewel of Life, which shattered when Arceus struck it, convincing Arceus that Damos's descendant was deceiving it.
• Arceus unleashed Judgment, and Hai Ming Teleported in front of Sheena and the others to block it with a Blue Storm, arguing that the present-day Michina Town should not be judged.

Arceus gave Hai Ming three days to recover the stolen Jewel of Life before he judged Michina Town. Hai Ming and Ash’s group traveled to the past to stop Sheena’s ancestor from betraying Arceus, while Sheena and Kevin searched for clues in the present.

• Hai Ming promised to recover the Jewel of Life, and Arceus gave him three days before judging Michina Town.
• Arceus blasted Sheena with Judgment when she pleaded for more time, but Kevin caught her before she fell off the cliff.
• Hai Ming told Sheena to contact Cynthia and asked her to summon Dialga so they could travel into the past.
• Dialga opened a time tunnel and marked Hai Ming, Zhu Zhuqing, Ash, and the others so it could bring them back afterward.
• Hai Ming, Zhu Zhuqing, Ash, and the others entered the time tunnel, while Sheena left to contact Cynthia and Kevin searched the temple for clues.

Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing arrived in the past on the day Marcus planned to betray Arceus, and Hai Ming stopped Marcus’s mercury attack. Arceus learned that Damos had not betrayed him but unleashed Judgment against the humans who had, leaving Hai Ming unwilling to intervene.

• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing emerged from the time tunnel and subdued the warriors and Pokémon who tried to capture them.
• Ash and his companions escaped the dungeon and raced to warn Sheena and stop Marcus’s betrayal, but Marcus confronted them before they could reach her.
• Marcus ordered Electric-type Pokémon to attack Arceus with Thunder Wave, but Arceus’s barrier deflected the attacks after Damos warned him.
• Hai Ming arrived and used the Twilight of the Sea God to scatter Marcus’s mercury, while Damos and Sheena knelt to apologize to Arceus.
• Arceus reclaimed the Jewel of Life and unleashed Judgment against the humans who had betrayed him, while Hai Ming protected Ash and the others but refused to stop Arceus.

Damos pleaded with Arceus to spare Michina Town, but a shadowy, Shiny Arceus appeared and attacked the Creator God. Hai Ming recognized its Shadow Force and wondered whether Giratina could be summoned in this world.

• Damos begged Arceus to spare Michina Town because its people had not known about Marcus's deception.
• Arceus sent Damos and Sheena far away, then confronted the black figure that had appeared in the sky.
• Hai Ming identified the figure as a Shiny Arceus, and Arceus explained it was a copy formed from shadow energy on the meteorite.
• The Shiny Arceus attacked with Judgment, and Hai Ming struck Arceus with an unseen force that made him fall.
• Hai Ming recognized the Shiny Arceus's Shadow Force and asked Zhu Zhuqing whether she could summon Giratina.

Arceus defeated the false Shiny Arceus and revealed how it had been created from a meteor’s mysterious power, then used it to create Giratina and resolve the threat to the Distortion World. After sparing Michina Town’s people, Arceus challenged Hai Ming to a trial for the Elemental Tokens, and Hai Ming launched his strongest attack.

• Arceus overpowered Shiny Arceus in a battle that destroyed Michina Town, while Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing watched and Damos suffered nearby.
• Shiny Arceus revealed that it had copied Arceus’s powers after the meteor injured him, and that the meteor had damaged both the Reality World and the Distortion World.
• Arceus trapped Shiny Arceus across dimensions, defeated it, and used its power to create Giratina, allowing Zhu Zhuqing to summon Giratina again.
• Arceus spared Michina Town’s evacuated civilians and told Damos to lead humanity, while refusing to help rebuild the town.
• Arceus invited Hai Ming to undergo a trial for the Elemental Tokens, and Hai Ming, joined by Zhu Zhuqing and the three complete Plates, attacked with Twilight of the Gods.

Cynthia recovered the Jewel of Life and returned it to Michina Town, while Dialga brought Ash and the others back from the past. Dialga and Palkia opened a space-time gate for Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing, who were expected to return within fifteen minutes.

• Cynthia arrived in Michina Town with the recovered Jewel of Life after tracking down the mastermind behind its theft.
• Dialga brought Ash and the others back from the past, easing Kevin and Sheena’s fears for Michina Town.
• Sheena told the others that Damos had not betrayed Arceus and that they had encountered another Arceus in the past.
• Dialga identified the Arceus they had encountered as Giratina’s former self and failed to summon Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing back.
• Sheena summoned Palkia, and the two Legendary Pokémon opened a space-time gate for Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing to return within fifteen minutes.

Hai Ming fought Arceus in ancient Michina Town and endured the Creator God’s overwhelming attacks. After Hai Ming’s Ragnarok wounded Arceus and the two clashed again, Arceus ended the battle, recognized Hai Ming, and made him his human emissary.

• Hai Ming dodged Arceus’s attacks and defended Michina Town from their destructive force.
• Arceus blocked Dialga’s attempt to teleport Hai Ming away and gave him fifteen minutes to endure the trial.
• Hai Ming used Ragnarok, a god-slaying attack forged from several divine powers, against Arceus.
• Arceus countered Ragnarok with Judgment, and their clash disrupted Michina Town’s space and time.
• Arceus stabilized the town, acknowledged Hai Ming, and gave him the power of all eighteen Plates.

Long Haochen encountered Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing after they emerged from a disrupted journey through time and space, and they protected him and a little girl from a masked man. Hai Ming offered to take Long Haochen as his disciple, while Zhu Zhuqing considered training the girl; the group had arrived in the Throne of Seal World.

• Long Haochen passed his assessment, received Origin-Nourishing Potion, and went into the forest to gather wild vegetables for his mother.
• Long Haochen found an injured little girl and was struck by a masked man in white who had come looking for her.
• Hai Ming caught Long Haochen as he fell, and he and Zhu Zhuqing realized they had been thrown into a new world by the Holy Throne of Light and Justice.
• Zhu Zhuqing held the girl and threatened the masked man, while Hai Ming identified him as someone from the Assassin Temple.
• Hai Ming told Long Haochen that the masked man was not evil and offered to take him as a disciple.
• Zhu Zhuqing noticed the girl's hidden killing intent and considered taking her as a disciple herself.

Hai Ming revealed the Demon Race’s origins to Long Haochen, Sheng Cai’er, and Number Seven, then asked Long Haochen to become his disciple. The chapter ended with Long Haochen accepting Hai Ming as his master and Sheng Cai’er bowing to Zhu Zhuqing.

• Zhu Zhuqing asked the girl in her arms to become her disciple, and Hai Ming healed Long Haochen and Sheng Cai’er before they moved to a teahouse.
• Hai Ming told Number Seven that he and Zhu Zhuqing came from another world, and offered to cure Long Haochen’s mother if Long Haochen became his disciple.
• Hai Ming explained that the Evil God had devastated another world and that its defeated Demon God Pillars had invaded other worlds while seeking him.
• Number Seven listened in shock as Hai Ming described the Demon Race’s origins, and Long Haochen worried about the threat the Evil God posed to his world.
• Hai Ming asked Long Haochen again to become his disciple, and Long Haochen accepted while Sheng Cai’er bowed to Zhu Zhuqing.

Long Haochen brought Hai Ming and his companions to meet Bai Yue, and Hai Ming healed her while explaining the truth about the Demon Race. The chapter ended with Hai Ming asking Long Xingyu whether Long Haochen was Feng Xiu’s son.

• Bai Yue worried when Long Haochen stayed out late, then welcomed him home after he passed his exam.
• Long Haochen introduced Hai Ming as his teacher from another world, and Hai Ming reassured Bai Yue that he was not an agent of the Demon God Emperor.
• Hai Ming healed Bai Yue, while Zhu Zhuqing sensed that Bai Yue and Long Haochen carried an aura associated with the Demon Race.
• Long Xingyu arrived, and Hai Ming confirmed that Long Haochen had Demon Race blood.
• Hai Ming reminded Zhu Zhuqing that people should speak openly to prevent misunderstandings, then asked Long Xingyu whether Long Haochen was Feng Xiu’s son.

Hai Ming forced Long Xingyu and Bai Yue to confront the truth about their separation, revealing that Bai Yue was Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu’s daughter and Long Haochen was Feng Xiu’s grandson. After the couple reconciled, Hai Ming turned his attention to training Long Haochen.

• Hai Ming restrained Long Xingyu and Bai Yue after Bai Yue realized Long Xingyu’s identity and accused him of hiding something.
• Long Haochen guessed that Long Xingyu might be his father, and Hai Ming used azure light to ensure they could not lie.
• Long Xingyu said he had searched for Bai Yue and Long Haochen for nine years, while Bai Yue confirmed Long Haochen was his child.
• Hai Ming stated that Bai Yue was Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu’s daughter and that Long Haochen was Feng Xiu’s grandson.
• Long Xingyu and Bai Yue reconciled, and Long Xingyu accepted Hai Ming as Long Haochen’s master.
• Hai Ming began training Long Haochen, who worried about the days ahead.